Ask Atma

MAY 20, 2012

To get you started I will expand on the list that MIT research scientist Peter Gloor calls the “genetic code” of collaboration: learning networks, ethical principles, trust and self-organization, knowledge sharing, and transparency. It is essential to build in a framework of virtuous and ethical principles.

Team 52

Team How To Knowledge Management Self-aware 52

Harvard Business Review

JUNE 4, 2015

You suspect that your finance colleague might be fudging numbers, your boss isn’t telling his manager the truth about an important project, or your co-worker is skipping out of the office early but leaving her computer on so it looks like she’s just down the hall. Sometimes you sense that something isn’t right at work.

Ethics 8

Ethics How To Morale Information 8

Harvard Business Review

NOVEMBER 8, 2018

This is the term I’ve given to a constellation of behaviors that I’ve seen occurring together often during my 24 years in management: weak performance management, a tendency to avoid conflicts with employees, and generally lackluster accountability. For example, on large projects they had persistent trouble meeting deadlines.

Micromanagement 14

Micromanagement Management Human Resources Self-aware 14

Women on Business

JANUARY 24, 2011

For long-term relationship-building, be sure that your values and those of your clients mesh. Pitches MUST be short, which is more time-consuming than presenting long ones. But commitment guides bravery more than an inherent belief in self-ability! It forces you to edit and target with accuracy. Don’t be timid.

Press Release 100

Press Release Discount Sharpe Advertising 100

Strategy Driven

JULY 17, 2015

This chapter studies communications, thinking processes, management processes, self-inflicted crises and structural components of companies that go bad, or maybe never do what it takes to be good. Setting one's self up for failure. That data projects the future. The term 'mission' is a buffer, excuse, putdown and roadblock.

Self-aware 50

Self-aware System Open-book Learning-by-Doing 50

Strategy Driven

APRIL 17, 2015

This chapter studies communications, thinking processes, management processes, self-inflicted crises and structural components of companies that go bad, or maybe never do what it takes to be good. Setting one’s self up for failure. That data projects the future. Refusal to hear what is said. Stubbornness. Fear of change.

Self-aware 50

Self-aware System Learning-by-Doing Bottom-up 50

Strategy Driven

FEBRUARY 4, 2011

Or, do we now see the need and importance to embrace longer-term approaches? How much further should we extend ethics? Sadly, many of the perpetrators did not see lapses in ethics… it was legal and just business to them. The term CEO has recently been held in disfavor. Juliano Howard T. Dickens Jr.

Ethics 76

Ethics Cost Crisis Learning-by-Doing 76

Strategy Driven

JUNE 3, 2011

The biggest problem with business, in a one-sentence capsule, is: People exhibit misplaced priorities and impatience… seeking profit and power, possessing unrealistic views of purpose, and not fully willing to do the things necessary to sustain orderly growth and long-term success. by Hank Moore. What do we want to become?

Strategic Planning 86

Strategic Planning Benchmarking Long-term Consultative 86